英语词汇yap的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

yap. Yap is an echoic word that first meant only the barking of a small dog. The word is first recorded in this sense in 1603, and it apparently took over two centuries before yapping was applied to a person who yaps as well as a dog that yaps. In the process yap also became American slang for the mouth, as in shut your yap, recorded in about 1900, and American slang for a stupid person. The Yap Islands in the West Pacific, noted for the stone money long used by the Micronesians there, are not named from the English yap, taking their name instead from a native language.

词汇	yap
词源	yap. Yap is an echoic word that first meant only the barking of a small dog. The word is first recorded in this sense in 1603, and it apparently took over two centuries before yapping was applied to a person who yaps as well as a dog that yaps. In the process yap also became American slang for the mouth, as in shut your yap, recorded in about 1900, and American slang for a stupid person. The Yap Islands in the West Pacific, noted for the stone money long used by the Micronesians there, are not named from the English yap, taking their name instead from a native language.
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